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Scope and Content

This collection consists of sheet music from the early nineteenth century to the mid twentieth century. The works vary in genre from opera pieces to folk music, including works by Christy's Minstrels. The music is from different parts of the world, primarily Europe and the United States. Many of the folk songs are ones that European immigrants brought with them to the United States. Some of the pieces from the early 1900s are about World War I and from soldiers' points of view.

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Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Scope and Content

From Pretty Mrs. Smith. Lyrics by Archibald Joyce. Music by Earl Carroll.

1

12

Dreams of Childhood Days 1912

2

3

Drifting with the Tide 1877

1

3

The Dying Girl 1852

Scope and Content

Words and music by John H. Hewitt.

3

21

The Empire State 1856

7

34

Everyone I Know Loves You 1915

2

8

Every Rose Must Have Its Thorn 1891

5

5

Far, Far Upon the Sea!

7

17

La Favorite Polka and The Wedding Polka

3

35

The Favorite 'Trab, Trab'

9

21

The Favourite American Polka 1844

7

25

First Love

7

13

Flow On Thou Shining River

Scope and Content

Includes handwritten notes about Mary Harden and John Howard Payne.

3

29

Forget-Me-Not 1904

Scope and Content

Blümlein Vergissmeinnicht

2

33

Fruits and Flowers

7

5

The Gambler's Wife

9

11

Gems from the Musical Repertoire of William A. Mestayer's We, Us & Co. 1886

3

22

The Golden Stream Varsoviana

3

19

Grandfather's Clock

5

26

The Great Excitement!

6

30

Hail, Smiling Morn

6

19

Hail! Smiling Morn

2

25

Henry, The Pride of the Main

6

6

Here's a Health to All Good Lasses

6

20

The Hills of Donegal 1914

4

13

Les Hirondelles

9

18

Home (Heimweh)

8

2

Home! Sweet Home!

3

15

The Hours I Spent with Thee 1914

Scope and Content

Music by Ernie Erdman.

1

7

I Am A Young Man That's Most Highly Respectable

6

22

I Am Not Angry 1853

7

31

I'd Leave Ma Happy Home for You 1899

Scope and Content

Lyircs by Will A. Heelan. Music by Harry Von Tilzer.

1

14

I'd Leave Ma Happy Home for You 1899

Scope and Content

Words by Will A. Heelan. Music by Harry Von Tilzer.

2

21

I Feel I Live in Sunshine Best

4

10

If I Could Ask A Wish of Heaven I'd Ask for You 1915

Scope and Content

Lyrics by Arthur J. Lamb. Music by F. Henri Klickmann.

1

8

If I Knock the 'L' Out Of Kelly It Would Still Be Kelly To Me

1

4

I Have No Mother Now 1856

7

32

The Holy Friar

9

11

I Love the Night

7

10

I'm Afloat

3

24

I'm Afloat, I'm Afloat!

Scope and Content

Words by Eliza Cook.

3

23

I'm Afloat, or The Rover's Song

Scope and Content

Poem by Eliza Cook.

5

9

I'm On My Way To Dublin Bay 1905

3

18

In My Cottage Near a Wood and My Heart with Love is Beating

4

29

Indian Love Call 1924

9

35

I Remember the Hour when Sadly We Parted 1863

6

28

I've Something Sweet to Tell You

8

6

I Wandered on the Sea-Beat Shore or The Shells of Ocean

5

31

I Will Not Leave My Mountain Cot

6

7

Jalousie 1926

9

36

Jetty Treffz or Trab Trab Polka and The Military Polka

9

22

Joan's Ale is New, Boys

4

21

John Anderson My Jo

1

30

Johnny Appleseed 1933

9

27

Just Before the Battle, Mother

7

26

Kate Kearney/The Bay of Biscay

5

11

Kathleen Mavourneen

2

11

Katy Darling

6

8

Katty Darling

8

3

Katty Darling

9

17

The Kossuth Polka; and The Kossuth Scottische

7

18

The Lament of the Irish Emigrant

1

2

The Lark

8

7

The Lass O'Cowrie

8

12

The Last Rose of Summer 1925

Scope and Content

Lyrics by Thomas Moore.

1

11

Leave Me Not Yet 1834

Scope and Content

Poem by Felicia Hemans.

4

16

Les Elegantes

7

1

Let Me Wander Where I Will

3

20

Let No Earthly or Sordid Feeling

4

32

A Life by de Galley Fire

5

13

A Life on the Ocean Wave 1838

4

15

A Life on the Ocean Wave and A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea 1838

3

31

Light is the Step of the Youthful Bride

4

23

Lilly Dale

Scope and Content

Sigismond Thalberg.

3

9

Lily and Rose Mazurkas

7

22

Lily of the Valley 1850

2

19

Lincoln's Mother 1900

5

30

Listen to the Mocking Bird 1856

Scope and Content

Lyrics by Septimus Winner under the pseudonym Alice Hawthorne.

2

10

The Little Church Round the Corner

1

26

The Little Mountaineer

6

3

The Little Shroud

4

17

Long Parted Have We Been

3

33

Long Parted Have We Been

3

34

Love's Eyes 1821

Scope and Content

Includes handwritten note about Mary Harden and John Howard Payne.

3

30

Lucy Long

6

17

Lucy Neal

5

14

Lucy Neal

6

11

Lullaby 1877

Scope and Content

Music by Adam Geibel.

4

2

Mahopac Lake Waltz 1846

4

3

Maid of Athens

Scope and Content

Poem by Lord Byron.

4

14

Mary of Argyle

1

27

Mary O'More

6

35

Mary's Gone with a Coon

8

17

The May-Queen

Scope and Content

Poem by Alfred Tennyson.

5

10

Melodie Op. 13, No. 9

6

29

My Home O'er the Sea 1841

5

29

My Lord Tomnoddy 1854

6

25

My Mary Anne

2

4

Mollie's Dream Waltz

9

19

My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair

1

28

My Mother's Bible

2

35

My Mother's Plaintive Song

1

23

My Native Village Home

7

16

My Skiff is on de Shore

8

34

My Skiff is on the Shore

8

31

My Valley Home in Illinois 1910

2

34

Nell, Till, and Mary-Anne, or Slap Bang! Clap Your Hands Again

8

24

Nobody Knows But Mother

9

26

Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen 1935

9

33

No Flow'r That Blows Is Like This Rose

4

34

Now I Love Sukey Dearly

2

30

Now You Must

1

24

O, Carry Me Back to Old Virginny 1848

6

2

Off to Charlestown

5

35

Oh Boys, Carry Me Long 1851

7

28

Oh! Farewell

8

16

Oh, Love Is Just Like Gaming

9

1

Oh! Summer Night

Scope and Content

Composed by Gioachino Rossini.

8

19

Oh! Summer Night

8

9

Oh, Susanna/Rosa Lee, or 'Don't Be Foolish Joe'

5

33

Oh Take Me Back to Tenessee 1853

Scope and Content

The Melodies of Kunkel's Nightingale Opera Troupe

2

14

Oh, You Beautiful Doll 1911

Scope and Content

Words by Seymour Brown. Music by Nat D. Ayer.

3

17

The Old Clock

4

8

Old Dan Tucker/Walk Along, John

5

32

Old Dog Tray

9

12

The Old Home Ain't What It Used To Be 1872

4

12

Old Home Down on the Farm 1889

1

6

Old King Time

5

17

The Old, Old Story

3

8

Old Saws for Young Gents

5

15

The Old Sexton

3

2

Old Point Polka 1854

7

29

Old Tare River

6

16

Old Uncle Ned 1848

4

27

O Nanny Wilt Thou Gang Wi Me; and Mary Morrison

7

21

The Opera Polka

Scope and Content

Arranged by Cesare Pugni.

2

6

The Organist 1936

2

31

The Original Polka

8

21

The Passage Bird

9

13

Peg O' My Heart 1947

9

34

Pestal

8

8

The Pet of the Polkas

3

32

Pride Polka 1850

9

2

The Post Horn Galop and the Anna Maria Galop

7

12

Pretty as a Picture

9

25

Pretty Flower

9

15

Pretty Polly Hopkins

3

14

Pretty Star of the Night

Scope and Content

Music by Harriet Waylett.

2

17

Le Reveil; or The Surprise Waltz

8

1

The Ride; or Trab, Trab, Trab

9

14

Ring the Bell Softly, There's Crape on the Door

4

3

Rock-a-Bye Baby 1886

5

22

Rockaway 1840

4

6

The Rock Beside the Sea 1857

4

7

The Rock Beside the Sea 1857

5

6

Rock'd in the Cradle of the Deep

6

24

Rock Me to Sleep Mother 1861

6

14

Rollstone Polka

7

33

Rosa's Wedding Day 1849

5

28

The Redowa Polka

Scope and Content

Composed by Cesare Pugni.

7

9

The Row in Dame Europa's School

4

19

Runnin' Wild 1922

Scope and Content

Lyrics by Joe Grey and Leo Wood.

1

19

The Sabbath Bells

3

12

Sailing Song 1890

2

32

Sally in Our Alley

3

28

Scotch Lassie Jean 1873

5

7

Scotch Lassie Jean 1873

9

7

Scotch Lassie Jean

9

10

Search Through the Wide World

2

2

See That My Grave's Kept Green 1876

1

34

She Never Blamed Him

8

22

Slumber On Baby Dear 1863

Scope and Content

Music by Louis Moreau Gottschalk.

5

2

So Early in the Morning

5

34

So Long Letty 1915

Scope and Content

Book by Oliver Morosco and Elmer Harris. Lyrics and Music by Earl Carroll.

1

20

So Long Letty

8

29

Somebody's Coming When the Dew Drops Fall 1878

9

9

Something to Love

4

22

Sparkling Waves Polka

3

13

Speed the Plough

7

35

The Spider and the Fly

5

16

Tangerine 1942

9

29

Tell John to Set the Kettle On

5

12

There's a Light That's Burning in the Window of the Little House Upon the Hill 1915

Scope and Content

By Ballard MacDonald, Joe Goodwin, and Harry Puck.

1

35

Thou Hast Wreath'd a Spell

2

16

Three Bells Polka

2

20

Tis Only Thee

8

13

Tom Bowling

Scope and Content

Music by Charles Dibdin.

1

29

Topsy's Song 1852

2

7

The Trilby Two-Step Polka 1895

4

18

Uncle Ned

3

26

Under Blue Canadian Skies 1941

1

17

Valentine

Scope and Content

Folder containing sheet music for multiple songs. What Are the Wild Waves Saying? He Was a Careful Man. An Awful Little Scrub. Little Nell. The Sea. Fly Away Pretty Moth. What Are the Wild Waves Saying.